re: 17 Years Ago the Columbine Massacre happened

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I know the school my kids go to has all the doors locked where the kids are.

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And I think these measures are much more effective at preventing mass casualties in a situation like this. School lockdown procedures have been revised greatly since Columbine.

Certainly metal detectors wouldn't hurt. My high school had the wands that they would use, but a student would be "randomly" selected while walking into school in the morning to have someone run the wand over them and search their school bag.

It seems to me that most of the school shootings we've seen since columbine have been committed by a non student (sandy hook and the Amish school in Ohio come to mind) or have been on a college campus (Virginia tech, the community college in Oregon).

A metal detector is not going to stop a non student who shows up and starts shooting and it's not feasible to have metal detectors on a college campus.